Nose-guard for eyeglasses.



No. 7|0,'4|9. Patented Oct. 7,1902.

H. BRSCH. NOSE GUARD FUR EYEGLASSES.

(Application filed June 6, 1902.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATESI PATENT OFFICE..

HENRY BORSCIIyOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

NOSE-GUARD FOR EYEGLASSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,419, dated October 7, 1902.

Application filed .Tune 6.1902. Serial No. 110.508. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it 7mm; concern.:

Be it known that I, HENRY BORSCH, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Nose-Guards for Eyeglasses, ot which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in duplex nose-guards for eyeglasses of that type shown in my application tiled February 15, 1902, Serial No. 9i,276, which consists of a substantially rigid guard with which coacts asupplementalguard which can move freely with relation to the fixed guard, so as to accommodate itself to various peculiarities of shapes of noses.

The object of this invention is to provide a nose-guard in which the supplemental guard is swiveled on a pivotal pin projecting substantially in line with the fixed guard and so that the supplemental guard shall have universal movement with respect to the fixed guard. In the preferable embodiment of my invention I accomplish this by providing a supporting or pivotal pin which has a slight bend therein and provide the movable guard with an opening so formed as to move on the bent pin in line with the bend and also on a center of which the axis of the pin is the center.

Vith this general statement in view my invention consists of a nose-guard having the peculiarities of construction as will be hereinafter described and then definitely pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view of part of a pair of eyeglasses with one of my improved nose-guards applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the noseguard detached. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail. Fig. et is a detail of the movable guard,taken at right angles to that shown in Fig. 3, so as to show the movement of the-movable guard about the pivotal pin inline with the axis of the latter.

Referring now to the details of the drawings, which, it will be understood, show what I consider the preferable though not necessary embodiment of. my invention, 1 indicates part of the frame of a pair of eyeglasses, and

2 the lens thereofand to the frame 1 is secured the usual post 3, to which the bridge 4, of any construction, may be secured by an ordinary screw. (Not shown.) Within the loop of the post 3 is also secured the noseguard, which, as I have illustrated it, consists of the usual securing-arm 6 and the ordinary rigid guard '7, to which may be attached a facing 8 in any desired manner.

All of the parts so far described are of wellknown construction, and therefore need no further description.

The metall forming the rigid `guard may be continued upward preferably substantially in line with the length of the rigid guard, as seen in Fig. 3, and -is formed into a pivotal pin 0, on which is supported the supplemental or movable guard 10. The pivotal pin 9 is provided with a decided bend 11 therein at the point where the pivotal pin passes th rough two openings 12 in the movable guard, and this bend is of such curvature as to allow the movable guard to move freely thereon as though it were moving in a circle of which the bend 11 is a part. To prevent the guard from moving off of the pivotal pin, I provide the latter with a second bend or an enlargement 13. The two openings 12, through which the pivotal pin 9 passes, are slightly larger than the diameter of the pin, and this permits of a movement on the pin on an axis of which the pin itself is the center, as shown in Fig. 4. Between the two movements there is practically a universal movement of the movable guard on the pivotal pin, which makes it possible for the movable guard to' that a duplex nose-guard having one fixed and one movable guard is not new, and therefore do not claim such broadly.

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What I claim as new is l. AdupleXnose-guard for eyeglasses comprising one nose-guard supported substantially rigid with respect to the eyeglass-frame, a pivotal pin projecting from said rigid noseguard substantially in line therewith, and a movable guard supported directly on said pivotal pin and having a compound or universal movement thereon, substantially as described.

2. A duplex guard for eyeglasses comprising one nose-guard supported substantially rigid with respect to the eyeglasslframe and having a pivotal pin projecting upwardly therefrom and having a bend therein, and a longitudinallymovable guard swiveled on said bend, substantially as described.

3. A duplex guard for eyeglasses comprising one nose-guard supported substantially rigid with respect to the eyeglass-frame and having a pivotal pin projecting upwardly therefrom and having a bend therein, and a movable guard having an opening therein through which the bent pin passes, substantially as described.

4. A duplex guard for eyeglasses comprising one nose-guard supported substantially rigid With respect to the eyeglass-frame and having a pivotal pin projecting upwardly therefrom and having a bend therein, and a movable guard having perforations therein through which the bent part of the pivotal pin passes whereby the movable guard has a compound or universal movement on said bent pivotal pin, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of May, 1902.

HENRY BORSOH.

Witnesses: Y

PERCY Z. MoDoNALD, RUDOLPH RISER. 

